Carsten Reinhardt

Carsten Reinhardt

Carsten Reinhardt (* 1966 in Stuttgart ) is a German historian specializing in natural science and technology and especially a chemical historian.

Professional life

Reinhardt received his doctorate in the history of science and technology at the Technical University of Berlin in 1996 , after which he was an assistant at the University of Regensburg until 2005, where he completed his habilitation in 2003 in general history of science (University Habilitation Prize 2004). In 2005/06 he was a deputy chair for the history of science in Jena and in 2006/07 at the Max Planck Institute for the history of science in Berlin (where he was a visiting scholar in 2010/11). Since 2007 he has been Professor of Historical Science Research in Bielefeld. From 2013 to 2016 he was President of the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia.

In 2010 he was visiting professor at the École normal supérieure (Paris) and in 2008/09 at the Sorbonne and the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris. In 2006/07 he was a fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research at Bielefeld University in the “Science in Application Context” group.

He researches the origins and dissemination of knowledge in the context of contemporary history, the history of research institutions and the history of chemistry (the relationship between chemistry and society). Among other things, he dealt with industrial research at BASF and IG Farben (dyes, pharmaceuticals, Fritz Haber ) as well as in the lime and cement industry, Heinrich Caro , Christian Friedrich Schönbein , the effects of the important analytical methods nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) and mass spectrometry on chemistry and Neighboring sciences, history of chemical institutes.

Carsten Reinhardt has been a member ( matriculation number 7672 ) of the learned society Leopoldina since 2015 . He received the ABB Science Prize in 2000 and the Georg Uschmann Prize for the History of Science in 2003. In 2004 he received the Paul Bunge Prize for the history of scientific instruments. He was a fellow of the Hebrew University's Edelstein Center for the History of Science. Among other things, he examined the effects of the introduction of mass spectrometry and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy after the Second World War on cooperation between universities and industry. A DFG project has been running since 2004 and he was or is involved in DFG projects on specialist knowledge and society (from expert reports to popular science), limit values ​​for carcinogenic substances, the history of accelerator technology with applications in medicine and the assessment of hazardous substances.

He is on the editorial board of Nuncius (Journal of the Material and Visual History of Science), Hyle (Journal of the Philosophy of Chemistry), the History of Science Reports, Ambix, and the Science and Technology Studies series (Nomos).

Fonts

• Research in the chemical industry: the development of synthetic dyes at BASF and Hoechst, 1863 to 1914, Freiberger Forschungshefte 1997 (= dissertation TU Berlin)
• with Anthony S. Travis: Heinrich Caro and the Creation of Modern Chemical Industry, Springer 2000
• Published in: Chemical sciences in the 20th century: bridging boundaries, Wiley-VCH 2001
• Editor with Harm Schröter: Academia and Industry in Chemistry: The Impact of State Intervention, and the Effects of Cultural Values, Ambix, Volume 51, 2004, No. 2
• Shifting and rearranging. Physical Methods and the Transformation of Modern Chemistry, Sagamore Beach, Science History Publications (SHP) 2006
• Editor with Beat Bächi: On the history of regulatory knowledge. Special Issue of Reports on the History of Science 33, 2010, No. 4
• Editor with Ursula Klein: Objects of chemical inquiry: collection of essays based on two workshops (MPI for the History of Science), Sagamore Beach, SHP, 2014
• Editor with Alfons Bora, Anna Henkel: Knowledge regulation and regulatory knowledge, Weilerswist: Velbrück Wissenschaft 2014
• Editor with Marianne Sommer, Staffan Müller-Wille: Handbuch Wissenschaftsgeschichte, JB Metzler 2017
• Chemistry in a physical mode, molecular spectroscopy and the emergence of NMR, Annals of Science, Volume 61, 2004, pp. 1-32
• The chemistry of an instrument, mass spectrometry and structural organic chemistry, in: Peter Morris, From classical to modern chemistry: the instrumental revolution, Royal Society of Chemistry 2000, pp. 229-247
• Habit, hierarchies and methods. Fine Differences Between Physics and Chemistry, NTM, Volume 19, 2011, pp. 125-146
• Historical science research today. Reflections on a History of the Knowledge Society, Reports on the History of Science, Volume 33, 2010, pp. 81–99
• with Thomas Steinhauser: Formation of a scientific-technical community. NMR spectroscopy in the Federal Republic of Germany, NTM, Volume 16, 2008, pp. 73-101
• A Lead User of Instruments in Science. John D. Roberts and the Adaptation of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance to Organic Chemistry, 1955-1975, Isis, Vol 97, 2006, pp 205-236

Web links

• Homepage Bielefeld University
• Leopoldina Newly elected members 2015, Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) 2016, p. 41 ( PDF )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kürschner, Scholars Calendar 2009
2. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Carsten Reinhardt (with curriculum vitae) at the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina , accessed on October 4, 2017.